The Marian Cheek Jackson Center for Saving and Making History is seeking a full-time (32 hrs/wk) Co-Director of Housing Justice/NNI Project Manager specializing in research and land-use planning.
This role will co-lead the Housing Justice Team in the Northside Neighborhood Initiative (NNI). The NNI focuses on retaining longtime residents in three historically African American neighborhoods (Northside, Pine Knolls, and Tin Top), attracting new residents who are invested in the community, and balancing the housing market which is currently tipped toward student rentals. The Co-Director will work alongside the Community Advocacy Specialist, The Co-Director of Housing Justice (Organizing and Advocacy), our financial partner, Self-Help Credit Union, and the Northside Compass Group.
This position will lead the Jackson Center’s efforts in land banking by managing the predevelopment process, creating financial analyses, leading project management for properties once acquired into the landbank, and researching relevant policies related to housing justice.
Currently, the Jackson Center is operating with a flexible, hybrid (in-person and remote) work environment. This role requires consistent presence in the neighborhoods requiring flexibility to include a few evening and weekend hours a month to meet the schedule and rhythm of the community.
About the Marian Cheek Jackson Center
Our mission is to honor, renew, and build community in Northside, Pine Knolls, and Tin Top; historically Black neighborhoods in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC. We ally with neighbors to respond with “community-first planning”: putting community knowledge, visions, and values first in every aspect of our work. Our approach is abundance-based: believing that there are enough resources, opportunities, and success to go around for everyone. Across our programs, MCJC disrupts conventional needs-based narratives and bears witness to the abiding resilience long-cultivated in Northside. We build on deep networks of care, long histories of courageous leadership, and rich traditions of creative community to revive the vibrant, diverse, affordable, and family-friendly neighborhoods our neighbors prize. We share with our neighbors a vision of a beloved community and a commitment to preserving the future of Northside, Pine Knolls, and Tin Top.
About the Position
This role is primarily responsible for holding the essential technical expertise around planning, housing development, financial analysis, data management, and research that enables the NNI to be successful. This is needed so that we can:
Responsibilities
Ideal qualities:
Listening-centered: You model patience. You listen to a wide variety of voices,
including your own. You believe in the power of listening as the primary mode of
community work.
Confident researcher: You are a fast learner who loves to dive deeply into a new
topic, thoroughly interrogate it, and structure your research to produce compelling
data and arguments. You are willing to fully learn about a situation in order to take
decisive action based on the information you gather. You can make
recommendations knowing your understanding of an issue is rock-solid.
Creative and Persistent: If one solution doesn’t work, you are able to step back and
create another solution to overcome an obstacle. You can approach an issue from
multiple directions in order to find a path forward. You think flexibly and are able to
adapt in order to find win/wins. In doing research, you can continue to patiently
follow a thread until you get the information you need.
Interest in policy, real estate, and land-use: You see the connections between
policy, real estate, financing, land-use and how they impact historically African
American communities. You are excited to learn and apply it in order to benefit the
neighborhoods
A knack for details and organization: you enjoy understanding the minutiae. You
can find ways to organize data that works best for your team. You are meticulous in
the details.
Project manager: You can take a large project, break it into smaller components,
and guide it from start to finish, delegating tasks, managing timelines and budgets,
in order to lead the project team to success.
Skilled Translator: You can translate housing technical concepts into the core of
what residents care about or are willing to learn the language of the Housing Team.
Accountable: You model leadership and are willing to take responsibility, good or
bad. You work well both independently and with a team, and pursue work that you
are proud of. You embrace hard conversations as pathways for individual and
collective learning.
Experience and Qualifications
The candidate should have experience in and/or a strong drive to learn more in the
following competencies with an ability to learn quickly:
Shared staff responsibilities:
Regular staff meetings and “staff gathers”
Weekly cleaning rotation
Ready participation in full team events and initiatives (Good Neighbor Initiative, Northside Festival, Holiday Party, NNI events and celebrations, porch parties, and Public History events such as Community Cinema Nights and Gateway Community Design Meetings)
All obligations and functions defined by the MCJC Handbook of Policies and Protocols
The Marian Cheek Jackson Center for Saving and Making History is seeking a full-time (32 hrs/wk) Co-Director of Housing Justice/NNI Project Manager specializing in research and land-use planning.
This role will co-lead the Housing Justice Team in the Northside Neighborhood Initiative (NNI). The NNI focuses on retaining longtime residents in three historically African American neighborhoods (Northside, Pine Knolls, and Tin Top), attracting new residents who are invested in the community, and balancing the housing market which is currently tipped toward student rentals. The Co-Director will work alongside the Community Advocacy Specialist, The Co-Director of Housing Justice (Organizing and Advocacy), our financial partner, Self-Help Credit Union, and the Northside Compass Group.
This position will lead the Jackson Center’s efforts in land banking by managing the predevelopment process, creating financial analyses, leading project management for…
This is a full time, permanent position with 32/hrs week compensated at $53,000 annually. We offer generous holiday and vacation leave benefits. The Jackson Center is a creative work environment, with a vibrant and intergenerational staff who are committed to living the mission of our work. The Jackson Center is an equal opportunity employer, and strongly encourages applications from people of color, persons with disabilities, women, and LGBTQ+ applicants. For further information, please see our website at www.jacksoncenter.info
This is a full time, permanent position with 32/hrs week compensated at $53,000 annually. We offer generous holiday and vacation leave benefits. The Jackson Center is a creative work environment, with a vibrant and intergenerational staff who are committed to living the mission of our work. The Jackson Center is an equal opportunity employer, and strongly encourages applications from people of color, persons with disabilities, women, and LGBTQ+ applicants. For further information, please see our website at www.jacksoncenter.info
Additional language preferred but not required
Additional language preferred but not required
To Apply
Please send your resume and cover letter to hiring@jacksoncenter.info. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis with interviews. Priority deadline for applications received prior to May 15th, with interviews beginning in May. We look forward to learning more about your interest, experience and qualifications for the position. Thank you!
To Apply
Please send your resume and cover letter to hiring@jacksoncenter.info. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis with interviews. Priority deadline for…